Students wore masks of global leaders for a game of football to protest Cambridge University’s failure to abandon fossil fuel investment.

With a world globe as a football, protesters hijacked the Senate House lawn wearing masks of Donald Trump, Theresa May, and Justin Trudeau, among other world leaders, while blaring the Match of The Day theme tune on portable speakers.

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Dubbed the ‘Climate Kickabout’, the game attracted a crowd of spectators and was live-streamed to Cambridge Zero Carbon Society’s Facebook page, accompanied by a message calling Cambridge University to divest from fossil fuels.

Participants also put up banners on the railings around Senate House.

Cambridge Zero Carbon put up signs on railings around Senate House Lawn.

In the live stream video on Monday (April 24), Senate security officers are filmed watching the masked figures’ bizarre protest, and briefly confiscating one of the footballs.

The football-themed protest is the first in a series of actions planned by the student-led society.

They have staged several other events in recent months in a bid to make their voices heard.

Cambridge Zero Carbon put up signs on railings around Senate House Lawn.